Quraish Ahmed

Quraish Ahmed (2 January 1940-14 June 1965) was a Fatah guerrilla leader who was the leader of the Beit Nehemia raid of 1965.

Biography
Quraish Ahmed was born on 2 January 1940 in Acre, Mandatory Palestine, and he joined Fatah in 1959 after Yasser Arafat created the group. In 1965, he led a team of eight Fatah commandoes in a raid from the West Bank on the Israeli settlement of Beit Nehemia on 14 June 1965, and the Fatah terrorists killed four Israeli civilians and two Israel Defense Forces soldiers. Ahmed and the seven other Palestinian terrorists were killed when the IDF responded to the raid, and Ahmed detonated his grenade belt when he died, causing minor injuries to one soldier.